Ken Hornstein wrote:
...
> >Being open does not mean that new arrivals are free from learning the
> >special handshakes and the technical peculiarities of our work; they are
>
> Hm, my mistake, I guess. I read on the IETF web page that the IETF didn't
> have any secret handshakes; I guess I was wrong :-)
Do you seriously imagine we are going to *teach* you the secret handshakes? :-)
But seriously - yes it's hard, and it's probably harder than when I first came
to the IETF in 1992. It's the brightest collection of protocol designers
on earth (I'm not one of them) - it's never going to be an easy club to join.
Brian
